By Steve Bittenbender LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) - Same-sex couples still unable to wed in Kentucky have seen at least one step toward marital rights in the state after a judge granted a couple married somewhere else a divorce, gay rights advocates said on Tuesday. Two women who were married in Massachusetts and later moved to Louisville, Kentucky, were granted the divorce in December by Judge ...

With a ruling last week by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on same sex marriage bans, it appears likely the Supreme Court will ultimately weigh in on the contentious issue, possibly before their term ends in June 2015.

The fight for acceptance of same-sex marriage has been debated in the U.S. Supreme Court and featured in scholarly books like the recently released Forcing the Spring: Last week, One Toyota, an Oakland car dealership, quietly began running a sweet but groundbreaking spot on Bay Area television stations. The "reveal" is so subtle that some viewers, like the ones in our house, may have to play the ...

A controversial proposal to extend same sex marriage legislation to Northern Ireland is set to be defeated in a Stormont vote today. The Democratic Unionists have tabled a contentious voting mechanism ahead of the debate on a Sinn Fein motion to change marriage laws in the region, meaning it could only pass if a majority of both unionists and nationalists support it. With the DUP holding the ...

Two Utah lawmakers want to keep private, intimate moments behind closed doors. The “Revenge Porn Bill” passed the House and is now up for debate in the Senate. It would make it illegal for someone intending to harm another person to share sexually-explicit images or videos without permission.

Two Utah lawmakers want to keep private, intimate moments behind closed doors. The “Revenge Porn Bill” passed the House and is now up for debate in the Senate. It would make it illegal for someone intending to harm another person to share sexually-explicit images or videos without permission.

Google and Microsoft have ramped up their efforts to fight online child porn following months of pressure by the office of UK Prime Minister James Cameron. The two have created a blacklist of search terms for which results will be blocked. When Cameron asked Google and Microsoft to create such a system in July, the companies told him blocking search results could not and should not be done.

Google said Monday it had developed new technology to block child porn from more than 100,000 unique searches, ahead of talks with Prime Minister David Cameron who has been pushing for action on indecent images online. Cameron hailed Google's move as "significant progress", even if campaigners noted it affects only a fraction of the 1.2 trillion Google searches conducted each year. Executive ...